The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Never act surprised in a courtroom.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

She wondered why white folks, who had everything, spent so much time fighting over who got how much, while black folks, who had nothing, just sat around feeling sorry for they selves.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

Her mother, by showing her off all through childhood, had trained into her the instinct to defeat the expectations of others.